Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-05-25

is unable to find any unemployed mer
 at present.
 ! The remains of Geo. Muir were buried
 at Albuquerque, on Wednesday after
 noon a; 3 o'clock, by the K. of F. lodge.
 of that place.
 Judge O'Neill will hear the applica.
 ton for the appointment oi an admin
 istrator of the estate of Annie Hamil
 ton on the 3d day of June.
 Larry Davis has telegraphed to q
 friend here to take charge of the prop
 erty of his wife, known as Annie Ham.
 ilton, until his arrival, which will be in
 few days.
 Captain E. B. Mosely, assistant sur | geon, U. $. A.. arrived at Whipple few l days since, where he will remain for duty He is said to be an excellent physician and surgeon.
 Mrs. N. o. Murphy and Mrs. W. c. Oliver entertained a number of ladies at luncheon yesterday afternoon. A num- Der of games of croquet were also played by the ladies present.
 Work on the railroad from Flagstaff
 to the Grand Canyon will, ii Is said, com
 mence immediately A gentleman who has just returned from Flagstaff says that a carload of Mexican aborers ar rived there the day he left, for work on the road.
 Sergeant Major T. Nj. Moody, of Whipple, passed an excellent examina- ton for promotion, before the examining board at Los Angeles, and ii will now be in order for him to receive his com mission as second lieutenant, when a vacancy occurs.
 The Albuquerque Democrat says that a new freight tariff has been issued by the Atlantic S Pacific railroad. All rates are reduced on the tariff from Pacific coast points, on flour and provisions is decreased over 50 per cent, bringing it below the rates charged from Missouri river points to Albuquerque.
 Capsain F.. E. Robertson, who has recently returned from issuing rations to the Wallapai Indians at Blackberry, reports twenty-three deaths among them last month, from measles in March, | the death roll from tine same cause, was thirty, and in February eight, making a total of sixty-one deaths from measles.
 General J. $. Mason, post commander | at Whipple. returned to-day after an absence oi several weeks, during which | he participated as a member of the board | of examiners, in the examination of non officers for promotion. at Its meeting in Los Angeles, and took part in a court martial proceedings m | the southern part of the territory.
 Hon. Levi Bashford, who has just re- iarned from trip to the Grand Canyon. was greatly impressed with the grand eur of that place. Owing to the diff ;ulties attending the descent into the by the ladies, the party did not ,o down to the bottom of it. The gen lemen. he says, descended about half nile, when they seemed no nearer the liver than when they started He says hat what were said to be immense pine rees growing near the bottom oi the ,anyon looked to them like small shrubs.
 Proposals for the purchase oi the military telegraph line betweeu Whip lle Barracks and Ash Fork, were opened the successful bidder being L. H. Wilson. The price paid was 400. There were only three bids presented, the next highest being '375. MT. Wilson took possession oi he line to-day, and he says he will ecure better telegraph service or know he reason why The delays heretofore lave been caused by the indifference of he Ash Fork operator, who will now lave to haitend to his knitting" as NIT. Wilson will stand no "funny business"